The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-03-31

DerS OF Gne Legislature Will De invited TO
confer with the convention as to the merits
] Of the measures in question.
The imports Of dry goods at New York
/ for the week ended March 25 amounted to
q, 212, 500, of which $1,8 81, ,915 were entered
! for consumption and 1884, S64 were ware
/ housed. Withdrawals from warehouse for
| the week amounted to $46S, $40, making
the total amount thrown on the market
! g, 2,341,425
! Week & Co.'s Touring mill at Bingham
ton, N. T., together with large amount of
lumber, burned on the 25th. Loss $4,000.
WEST AND SOUTH.
The Missouri Legislature adjourned on
| the 22d. The Governor says that he will
| soon call the two houses together in extra
session forthe special purpose of enacting
laws to enforce the constitutional provis-
ions in reference to railroads, which he
thinks has been too long deferred.
W. L. Royal, counsel for the British
bondholders, who was sent to Jail at Rich
mond q few days ago for refusal to pay q
fine OF $50 for violation OF the barratry laws
of Virginia, has been released on a writ Of
habeas corpus.
| Robert B. Mckee, of Union City, Ind,
tried for alleged completely in the Bohe-
milan oats swinlde, has been sentenced to
pay fine Of s25 and two years imprison-
ment In the penitentlary.
Five colored persons were rowing on
Lake Hall, near Tallahassee, Fla, on the
| 21st when the boat suddenly capsized and
| four were drowned.
A bill to legalize the issuance Of $40, ,000,-
600 worth OF stock by the Richmond & West
Point Terminal railroad was passed by both
houses Of the Virginia Legislature on the
Willie Sells, the boy murderer, who is
under sentence Of death at Erie, Kan, for
| killing his father, mother, brother and
sister, but who has always protested his
innocence, has confessed his guilt He says
that his brother Waty first killed his father
| during quarrel. Willie, being enraged at
this, seized the hatchet and killed Waty.
Then finding that he was seen by his mother
and sister, he killed them both in the same
way.
The Illinois Legislature has offered a
reward Of 5000 for the apprehension and
arrest Of the unknown person who at
tempted the assassination Of Representative
Bailey few days ago.
! P. j. Willis & Bro, of Galveston, Tex,
made spot sale Of $500 bales Of cotton q
few days ago to Kaufman g. Runge. The
cotton will be exported. The sale repre-
sents 1000, and is believed to be the
largest single transaction in spot cotton in
| the history of Texas, if not in the South.
Carter Harrison was renominated by ac-
clamation for Mayor Of Chicago by the
Democratic municipal convention held on
| the 23d.
8. W. Adrian, of Minneapolis, has laid
claim to large amount of property in the
heart of Duluth. Mimi, which he claims
was decided to his father by Waconta, an
Indian chief who died in 1854 and who, it is
said, once owned the site of Duluth. The
land claimed by Adrian is now worth $10,-
| 600, 600.
The Indian who killed Lieutenant Mott
and wounded Frank Porter near Globe, A.
T., recently, has been captured.
| In view of the recent decision of the Su-
preme Court, tax collectors in Mississippi
were on the 23d notified to stop collecting
tax on commercial travellers and whisky
ssdrummers.n The annual revenue from
these sources was $40,0O0.
Father Elish j. Durbin died at Shelby
vile, KY, on the 23d, aged eighty-eight
years. He was one of the eldest and best
known priests in the West.
At Decatur, Ill, on the 23d, while the
| all-bearers were bearing the remains Of
Mrs G. E. Houck, aged seventy-seven, to
the hearse, to be taken to the church, her
| husband, aged ninety, who was too feeble
to leave the house, died in his bed. 1t was
then arranged to hold both funerals to-
gether.
| A statistical review of the packing in
dustry of Chicago, published in the Trade
Bulletin, shows the aggregate of hogs
slaughtered at that city during the twelve
months ended March l, was 4, ,426, 900, or a
decrease of sol, 900 as compared with one
year ago. The number of cattle slaugh-
tered during the same period was 1.608, 900
head, of which !. 400, 900 head were required
| for the dressed beef trade. This shows an
increase of 2OO, 900 head over any previous
| year.
| A passenger train on the Baltimore &
Philadelphia railroad collided with freight
at Leslie, Md, on the 24th. George Crag-
| han, fireman of the east bound train, was
fatally. and Engineer George Robinett and
Fireman George Armstrong were severely
| injured.
| were struck by a Baltimore & Ohio express
| train near Leighton Station, Va, on the
oath. Two were killed outright, and the
third fatally injured.
A mortgage given by the Painesville,
Wooster & Ohio Railway Company to the
Mercantile Trust Company, of New York,
securing a loan of 5000, 600, was recorded
at Coshocton, o., on the oath.
Thirty of the Poles who were engaged in
the recent riot at Detroit, Mich, were ar
rested on the oath, charged with melting a
riot. The authorities have determined to
put stop to the troubles in the Polish
quarter
The soda, pop and mineral water bottling
firms of Chicago have effected consolida-
ton, with capital stock of $500, 200, and
have placed all their manufactures, deliv-
cry wagons and other appliances into the
pool. Only three firms remain outside Of
the combination
The death warrant Of Jack Marion, SEN
fenced to be hung at Beatrice, Neb., on
April l, was signed by Governor Thayer on
the 9th. Marion was convicted of the
murder of John Cameron in 1872 1t was
one year after the murder before the body
was found and Marion suspected Of the
crime, and ten years elapsed before the
criminal was arrested. The case has been
in the courts for five years, and the prisoner
has been three times sentenced to death.
| OCarter Harrison has written letter to
the Democratic City Central Committee,
positively declining to accept the nomina-
ton for Mayor of Chicago. A committee
: was appointed to fill the vacancy.
A freight train on the Norfolk & Western
railroad went through bridge on the 24th,
nine miles from Liberty, Va. The bridge
was in process OF repair and eight or nine
workmen were killed and several others
Z wounded. None of them are train hands as
far as known. The engine and several cars
crossed the bridge safely before the struc-
) ture gave way.
At New York Mills, Mimi, on the 25th
, Mrs Joseph Matteson murdered her year.
old baby by severing the jugular vein with
{ pair of sharp shears, and then committed
| do iv, ho